5.07.2012

Frieze Film is a programme of artist films screened to coincide with Frieze London. This year’s commissions include five new films that will be shown in a specially constructed cinema. The artists commissioned to make new work for Frieze Film are: Bertrand Dezoteux, Patricia Esquivias, Jimmy Merris, John Smith and Wu Tsang & Nana Oforiatta-Ayim. Their range of film-based practice loosely deals with ideas including those of history and memory, be it personal or collective. This year Frieze Film will also present an expanded programme of film co- curated by Frieze Foundation and LUX, a UK agency focusing on artists working in moving image.

Commenting on Frieze Film this year, the curator Sarah McCrory said ‘the five newly commissioned artists have varied practices and backgrounds, and are both emerging and established artists. There are some notional connections between the humour in John Smith and Jimmy Merris’ work, and an investigation into place takes two wildly different directions in the work of Patricia Esquivias and Bertrand Dezoteux. Wu Tsang is presenting a new film in collaboration with writer and historian Nana Oforiatta-Ayim – a first time collaboration uniting their interests in otherness and the marginal. I’m extremely happy to be working with LUX again, to produce the programme accompanying the new commissions.’

The tenth edition of Frieze London takes place 11 – 14 October 2012.

Still from film by Bertrand Dezoteux